Social media backs India on Kashmir, Pak told to vacate PoK

Washington: Social media voices have backed India after Pakistan's Prime Minister raised the Kashmir issue at the UN General Assembly even as a former top Pakistani diplomat tweeted that Nawaz Sharif's speech 'plays well at home' but is "not taken seriously by the rest of the world".

Reacting to Sharif's speech, India had hit back asking Pakistan to vacate Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and charged that Islamabad is the prime sponsor of terrorism.

"We urge early vacation of Pak occupied Kashmir," Vikas Swarup, spokesman of the External Affairs Ministry said in a series of tweets after Sharif raised the issue of Kashmir in at the UN General Assembly. These tweets were soon trending on Twitter.

"Pak Prime Minister gets foreign occupation right, occupier wrong," Swarup tweeted after Sharif in his four-point proposal said that steps be taken to demilitarise Kashmir.

Twitter users were quick to support India while describing Pakistan as a hub of terrorism, even as its own former diplomat observed that Sharif's speech at the UN General Assembly, though welcomed at home, has furthered hardened India's position.

"Pakistan has gained nothing out of it and globally there are few takers for its Islamabad's allegations against New Delhi," tweeted Husain Haqqani, former Pakistani Ambassador to the US.

And while Sharif was addressing the UN General Assembly, a number of Baloch nationalists and supporters of Muttahida Quami Movement held protest rallies against alleged human rights violations in Pakistan.